marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
It's a great cemetery!Abney Park in Stoke Newington has loads of cool non-conformist graves but this is a favourite, for a guy who ran a circus.
Notable graves you've visited
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davesgcr
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We were planning a visit and tribute to Edith Jesse Thompson in the morning (she is in the City of London cemetary) , executed in 1923 for the "Ilford Murder" , where her lover (Freddie Bywaters) stabbed her husband in suburban Belgrave Road when returning from the theatre. A fascinating example of a wrongful case, as she was charged as an accomplice and what did for her was her copious love letter correspondance which the police and judiciary carefully sifted for "relevant" bits . A case well covered by Prof Rene Weiss and Laura Thompson. She was buried in Holloway Prison , then moved in the 1970's to Brookwood cemetary to an unmarked grave and Rene managed to get her exhumed and buried with her adored parents in late 2018. Well worth a Google. (there is an excellent website on her - just put in her name). There was huge outrage at her sentence , and there were very few women dealt so , with Ruth Ellis the last one. (edithjessiethompson.co.uk)
Anyway, she was remembered for many years in a service at her local church , St Bartholomews in Manor Park / East Ham at the time of her execution and on the anniversary, - having read both books and researched as much as I could, I set off last year which meant an 0620 departure and found a deserted church. It had been decided to do the "service" at the graveside , something I found thanks to the internet , (at about 0840) so I ran through the streets to find a taxi office, explained my mission and this gem of a cab driver got me there at 0855 having done the back doubles etc.
At the cemetary , I explained my goal to the really helpful attendants who knew about her (it had got a lot of media coverage when she was reburied) , so they pointed the area and I again sprinted off in the direction. Suddenly , I was overtaken by a battery truck which they had scrambled and I was urged in on top of shovels and so on , and delivered more or less on time to the graveside. What a bunch of heroes (and I did email the splendidly titled "Commissioner of the City of London Cemetary" to thank them. So we paid our respects with dignity and retired for tea and a late breakfast in Manor Park , where it was a pleasure to meet Rene Weiss and one of Edith's distant descendants - thanks to COVID we cannot do it this year. I will pay my respects when I can (again).
Anyway, she was remembered for many years in a service at her local church , St Bartholomews in Manor Park / East Ham at the time of her execution and on the anniversary, - having read both books and researched as much as I could, I set off last year which meant an 0620 departure and found a deserted church. It had been decided to do the "service" at the graveside , something I found thanks to the internet , (at about 0840) so I ran through the streets to find a taxi office, explained my mission and this gem of a cab driver got me there at 0855 having done the back doubles etc.
At the cemetary , I explained my goal to the really helpful attendants who knew about her (it had got a lot of media coverage when she was reburied) , so they pointed the area and I again sprinted off in the direction. Suddenly , I was overtaken by a battery truck which they had scrambled and I was urged in on top of shovels and so on , and delivered more or less on time to the graveside. What a bunch of heroes (and I did email the splendidly titled "Commissioner of the City of London Cemetary" to thank them. So we paid our respects with dignity and retired for tea and a late breakfast in Manor Park , where it was a pleasure to meet Rene Weiss and one of Edith's distant descendants - thanks to COVID we cannot do it this year. I will pay my respects when I can (again).
discokermit
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i visited the grave which was the location of the conception of ingrid fletcher, daughter of norman stanley fletcher.
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cyberfairy
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I have written a book about wonderful graves and those interred within but for some reason not been able to get it published- great excuse to visit some great graves though- Scottish kirkyards are particularly amazing.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Have you considered publishing it yourself?
cyberfairy
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I think I'm going to look into it- scared to waste money when the damp situation in my house is a probably better way to utilise what money I have.
heinous seamus
Perfect in an empty room
The poet Ian Hamilton Finlay is buried a few rows away from my dad and gran.
Pingety Pong
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I would live to read it!
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Brilliant underrated actor and the main star in the best romantic film ever, also great in her other films. I think I’ll always be a bit in love with her. And yes, I’ve never once got through Brief Encounter with out crying - even if I do claim ‘I’ve just got something in my eye...’ see also her soliloquy in In Which We Serve.
josef1878 2.0
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cyberfairy
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Thanks- been fun researching it- love a good graveyard
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Good graveyards is a whole new thread. St Tropez?Thanks- been fun researching it- love a good graveyard
cyberfairy
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Most notable ones I've been to were Pere Lachaise and Montparnasse, which I think are covered a fair bit already upthread, but here's a few that I don't think have been posted yet:
(obligatory but didn't seem to have been posted already)
(Jean Seberg in case it's not readable, really nice to see how well-tended it was)
(Tristan Tzara, another one with so many flowers it's hard to read)
Also Montparnasse has I think either Baudelaire or Rimbaud who very obviously died penniless and had to be buried in a family grave, with a headstone saying something along the lines of "Here lies this worthy bourgeois member of the family who had various achievements and his wife, also his shitty brother-in-law who wrote some poems or something I guess". Or words to that effect.
(obligatory but didn't seem to have been posted already)
(Jean Seberg in case it's not readable, really nice to see how well-tended it was)
(Tristan Tzara, another one with so many flowers it's hard to read)
Also Montparnasse has I think either Baudelaire or Rimbaud who very obviously died penniless and had to be buried in a family grave, with a headstone saying something along the lines of "Here lies this worthy bourgeois member of the family who had various achievements and his wife, also his shitty brother-in-law who wrote some poems or something I guess". Or words to that effect.
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Throbbing Angel
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All the Bronte graves at Haworth, so that's Charlotte, Emily, Branwell, Elizabeth and Maria.
Haven't been to Anne's in Scarborough.
Matt Busby
John Rylands
LS Lowry
Rob Gretton
Haven't been to Anne's in Scarborough.
Matt Busby
John Rylands
LS Lowry
Rob Gretton
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
A couple of others I remember in Montparnasse which haven't been mentioned already were Man Ray and his wife, and Serge Gainsbourg
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
Have you looked at the possibility of making it into a blog? Pretty sure some people on here make some spare change from their blogs.
cyberfairy
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Thanks- yes, just started uploading some of it- not bothered about the money, just like an excuse to look at old graves and churches
Folk, myth, legend - Soil, Stone and Bone
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One, for the oldies Moira Lister. A beautiful little church and graveyard in a quiet corner of Surrey.
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Not the most famous, but rather nice Derek Rencher - Wikipedia
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From today's rag Dead strange ... in search of Britain’s most unusual tombs
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
Jane Austen in Winchester cathedral
Sweet fanny adams
Sweet fanny adams
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Country file had a bit on grave yards last night and there is this
Ps how come this thread is not called dead famous?
Ps how come this thread is not called dead famous?
